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Maintainer for autoconf in git (was: [PATCH] autoconf: Add limited support for --htmldir)

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 2, 2009, 09:30 UTC
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On Sat, 28 Feb 2009, David Syzdek wrote:
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> Are you more or less the maintainer of the configure.ac file?  Or is
> it more of a "hive" effort?  There are a few things that could be done
> to make the file a little more readable and maintainable.  For
> instance, breaking the macro functions into acinclude.m4 instead of
> keeping them in the configure.ac file.
> 
> I'd be willing to help or take the brunt of the work, but I would like
> to coordinate with someone whom is familiar with the interaction
> between the Makefile and configure.ac.
> 
> I have a decent amount of experience with using the autotools and am
> comfortable with autoconf.
> 
> Let me know if you think this is a good idea or not.

It is true that I have added [optional] support for autoconf to git, and I think the idea of having optional ./configure support in the form of generating configuration file for Makefile, overriding the guesswork based on uname, and being overridden by user's customization is mine.

But I have next to no experience (except for the work on git) with autotools / autoconf. Additionally keeping up configure.ac and config.mak.in in sync with changes to Makefile (build system) needs time which I don't have much of. So I very much would like for someone with better knowledge of autotools to take over maintaining configure for git.

The thing to remember is that ./configure has to be entirely optional...

P.S. On of things that autoconf needs to work better is to have fallback install-sh script in git sources... which I think also would help in the case where we do not use ./configure, but are on some legacy system.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
Previous: Nanako Shiraishi
Message 4 of 4 in “autoconf: Add limited support for --htmldir”
  1. autoconf: Add limited support for --htmldirDavid Syzdek, Feb 28, 2009
  2. Jakub NarebskiFeb 28, 2009
  3. Nanako ShiraishiApr 10, 2009
  4. Maintainer for autoconf in git (was: [PATCH] autoconf: Add limited support for --htmldir)Jakub Narebski, Mar 2, 2009

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